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  Watch Junip's Ironically Sinister 'Your Life, Your Call' Video

  April 4, 2013 – José González may record mostly hushed, acoustic-based songs under his own name, but he's no stuffy traditionalist. His albums take as much care with sonic textures as with intricate guitar figures and their often-bleak lyrics, and his videos show every bit the creativity of the tracks they accompany — see, for example, the video cycle for 2007's bewitching In Our Nature. …
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  Junip Serve Up Synth-y Motivational Mantras on 'Your Life, Your Call'

  March 26, 2013 – José González's kraut-folk trio is active again and prepping a self-titled sophomore LP for April 23 via Mute. Earlier this year we heard the lush, pumped-up jangler "Line of Fire," but now we've got a subtler highlight to take in. …
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  Jose Gonzalez Returns With Junip: Listen to Lush Kraut-Folk Song 'Line of Fire'

  January 15, 2013 – It's been a while since we've heard from Junip, the kraut-folk trio helmed by José González. Their 2010 LP debut Fields pushed that softspoken Swede out into the limelight and made for results both unnatural and enticing. …
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  ATP Curators Afghan Whigs Announce 14 Acts, From Lanegan to Louis C.K.

  February 24, 2012 – To celebrate the first Afghan Whigs show in America in 13 years, gloom-master general Greg Dulli was kindly asked to curate the second year of beach-brooder blowout All Tomorrow's Parties I'll Be Your Mirror in Asbury Park, New Jersey. …
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• Junip, 'Fields' (Mute)

  September 1, 2010 – José González's usual mode -- hushed, pretty, acoustic, melancholy -- gets goosed by krautrock ghosts in this side-project trio. Fleshed out with sinister synths and laid-back drums, the Swedish folkie's songs breathe and groove like never before. That's not always a good thing. "Sweet & Bitter" loses its focus in dusky slink, and "Tide" builds toward nothing much at all. …
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  My Morning Jacket, Spoon, Arcade Fire Fight AIDS with New Songs

  December 1, 2008 – A jaw-dropping collection of indie rock's finest have contributed exclusive new songs to Dark Was the Night, a 32-track album out February 17 via 4AD, which will benefit the Red Hot Organization, a charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. …
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  Festival Faves: Bonnaroo '08

  July 21, 2008 – What do Nicole Atkins and Gogol Bordello have in common? Outside of being red-blooded and enjoying the music-making process, probably not much. At least until they took a moment mid-Bonnaroo to grace SPIN's eager cameras for private acoustic renditions of the hits they would later bust out for thousands of adoring, sun-damaged fans. …
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  Backstage at Bonnaroo: Jose Gonzalez

  June 17, 2008 – Watch video of soft-spoken singer/songwriter José González performing the snappy, gorgeous "Abram," a tune of his latest set In Our Nature,as well as chatting with our William Goodman about summer plans, eco-friendly touring, and the fate of his long-dormant band, Junip. Now Watch This: José González, "Abram" Backstage Interview More on SPIN.com:José González Woos SpinHouse LiveVideo Inter …
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